> From: markmohrfield_at_...
>As Jeffrey Kyer pointed out, its going to be rather more than that. I
>think that we sometimes forget just how violent preindustrial
>societies are. In David Brin's "A Transparent Society" he mentions
>that "some researchers estimate between 20 to 30 percent of males in
>preindustrial societies died at the hands of other males."
>
> Mark Mohrfield
Young males (infants esp.) also have high rates of accidental deaths
(falls, drowning and so on).
Thom